Composer of the Week: Jean-Philippe Rameau

Rameau first made his mark with a book on music theory, called Traité de l’harmonie. Influential to this day, Rameau laid out that music is an aesthetic science, which he then put to the test as France’s foremost composer of opera – and one of its most divisive figures!

Tune in to “A Little Night Music” every night this week, just after 8 o’clock.